Pincy:Cuchulane: It's good to know that plenty of people still have the curiosity and ingenuity to see if something can be done just for the heck of it. You never know what this can lead to.

Probably lawsuits from Apple.

Yup. To use Siri, you need to proxy into special servers with a unique key... it's possible, for example, to use Siri on a plain old iPhone 4, but you have to use somebody else's key to get in, displacing a legitimate user in the process. Those unique keys are supposed to be locked down to iPhone 4s or iPhone 5s.

nolafark:Pushing a button is so much physical work, glad this is done so I don't have to do that again.

It can come in handy. I saw a link about a year ago to do this with an android phone, but the benefit is that you could use the camera to check the status of the door. I have turned around multiple times because I didn't verify that the door was closed before I drove down the road. Using the setup I mentioned, I could have gone to work, checked the door, and closed it, if I needed to, remotely.

In other words, something great for people with compulsive disorders. Or Obsessive, sometimes I get which one is which confused...

Thinking about it further. I have had children lock themselves out of my house. I would have been nice to use a phone app to open the door. Then why would I need Siri? I could write a process to look for a file in a directory and then process the commands in the file.

lendog:Thinking about it further. I have had children lock themselves out of my house. I would have been nice to use a phone app to open the door. Then why would I need Siri? I could write a process to look for a file in a directory and then process the commands in the file.

Or hide a key under the planter. Or put a punchpad on the door. Or something else that's much easier.

bhcompy:lendog: Thinking about it further. I have had children lock themselves out of my house. I would have been nice to use a phone app to open the door. Then why would I need Siri? I could write a process to look for a file in a directory and then process the commands in the file.

Or hide a key under the planter. Or put a punchpad on the door. Or something else that's much easier.

I went with the extremely complex fake rock in the flower bed. There is other rocks so it is hard to notice.

lendog:Thinking about it further. I have had children lock themselves out of my house. I would have been nice to use a phone app to open the door. Then why would I need Siri? I could write a process to look for a file in a directory and then process the commands in the file.

I'm going to have a web interface accessible by a mobile browser secured by client certificates and only accessible on the local wireless LAN, which extends about 75 ft past the door.